Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture #: Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860-1910

Decay, Desire, and the Pagan Revival

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture #: Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860-1910
Dennis Denisoff
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Casting fresh light on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British art, literature, ecological science and paganism, Decadent Ecology reveals the pervasive influence of decadence and paganism on modern understandings of nature and the environment, queer and feminist politics, national identities, and changing social hierarchies. Combining scholarship in the environmental humanities with aesthetic and literary theory, this interdisciplinary study digs into works by Simeon Solomon, Algernon Swinburne, Walter Pater, Robert Louis Stevenson, Vernon Lee, Michael Field, Arthur Machen and others to address trans-temporal, trans-species intimacy; the vagabondage of place; the erotics of decomposition; occult ecology; decadent feminism; and neo-paganism. Decadent Ecology reveals the mutually influential relationship of art and science during the formulation of modern ecological, environmental, evolutionary and trans-national discourses, while also highlighting the dissident dynamism of new and recuperative pagan spiritualities - primarily Celtic, Nordic-Germanic, Greco-Roman and Egyptian - in the framing of personal, social and national identities.

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' . . . a provocative addition to the study of both decadence and ecology. ' Elizabeth Helsinger
Dennis Denisoff is McFarlin Professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences at The University of Tulsa. His awards and recognitions include the President' s Award from both the Nineteenth Century Studies Association and the North American Victorian Studies Association. A past Sarwan Sahota Distinguished Scholar at Ryerson University, in 2022 he is a Visiting Distinguished Researcher at Queen Mary, University of London.
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ISBN-13: 9781108845977
Published: 16 Dec 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 236mm
Width: 159mm
Spine: 22mm
Weight: 570g
Pages: 250

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